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Klaus Ballanyi

Klaus Ballanyi

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
54
Citations
11006
World Ranking
4911
National Ranking
283

Overview

Klaus Ballanyi is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Neuroscience. Within these areas, their work focuses on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Physiology, and Neurology.

Their research topics include:

  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques

Among Klaus Ballanyi's recent scholarly contributions are the following papers:

  • The endoplasmic reticulum kinase PERK interacts with the oxidoreductase ERO1 to metabolically adapt mitochondria, 2022, Cell Reports
  • The ER chaperone calnexin controls mitochondrial positioning and respiration, 2020, Science Signaling
  • A sensitive and specific genetically-encoded potassium ion biosensor for in vivo applications across the tree of life, 2022, PLoS Biology
  • Endoplasmic reticulum stress in the dorsal root ganglia regulates large-conductance potassium channels and contributes to pain in a model of multiple sclerosis, 2020, The FASEB Journal
  • Mapping the Dynamic Recruitment of Spinal Neurons during Fictive Locomotion, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience

Klaus Ballanyi collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Thomas Simmen, Megan C. Yap, Vladimir Rančić, M. Joanne Lemieux, and Arthur Bassot.

Their work has appeared multiple times in specific publication venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Brain Sciences
  • Cell Reports
  • PLoS Biology
  • Science Signaling

Best Publications

  • Pre-Botzinger Complex: A Brainstem Region That May Generate Respiratory Rhythm in Mammals

    Jeffrey C. Smith;Howard H. Ellenberger;Klaus Ballanyi;Diethelm W. Richter

  • Disruption of KCC2 Reveals an Essential Role of K-Cl Cotransport Already in Early Synaptic Inhibition

    Christian A. Hübner;Valentin Stein;Irm Hermans-Borgmeyer;Torsten Meyer

  • Ion activities and potassium uptake mechanisms of glial cells in guinea-pig olfactory cortex slices.

    K Ballanyi;P Grafe;G ten Bruggencate

  • Respiratory network function in the isolated brainstem-spinal cord of newborn rats.

    Klaus Ballanyi;Hiroshi Onimaru;Ikuo Homma

  • Adynamia episodica hereditaria with myotonia: a non-inactivating sodium current and the effect of extracellular pH

    Frank Lehmann‐Horn;Gerald Küther;Kenneth Ricker;Peter Grafe

  • Mechanisms of respiratory rhythm generation

    Diethelm W. Richter;Klaus Ballanyi;Stephen Schwarzacher

  • Protective role of neuronal KATP channels in brain hypoxia.

    Klaus Ballanyi

  • High Sensitivity to Neuromodulator-Activated Signaling Pathways at Physiological [K+] of Confocally Imaged Respiratory Center Neurons in On-Line-Calibrated Newborn Rat Brainstem Slices

    Araya Ruangkittisakul;Stephan W. Schwarzacher;Lucia Secchia;Betty Y. Poon

  • A Bright and Fast Red Fluorescent Protein Voltage Indicator That Reports Neuronal Activity in Organotypic Brain Slices.

    Ahmed S. Abdelfattah;Samouil L. Farhi;Yongxin Zhao;Daan Brinks

  • Synaptic inhibition in the isolated respiratory network of neonatal rats.

    Johannes Brockhaus;Klaus Ballanyi

  • Microenvironment of respiratory neurons in the in vitro brainstem-spinal cord of neonatal rats.

    J Brockhaus;K Ballanyi;J C Smith;D W Richter

  • A genetically encoded Ca2+indicator based on circularly permutated sea anemone red fluorescent protein eqFP578.

    Yi Shen;Hod Dana;Hod Dana;Ahmed S. Abdelfattah;Ahmed S. Abdelfattah;Ronak Patel

  • Kir2.4: A novel K+ inward rectifier channel associated with motoneurons of cranial nerve nuclei.

    Christoph Töpert;Frank Döring;Erhard Wischmeyer;Christine Karschin

  • Neuron-glia signaling via alpha(1) adrenoceptor-mediated Ca(2+) release in Bergmann glial cells in situ.

    Anna Kulik;Antje Haentzsch;Mark Lückermann;Winfried Reichelt

  • cAMP-dependent reversal of opioid- and prostaglandin-mediated depression of the isolated respiratory network in newborn rats.

    K. Ballanyi;P. M. Lalley;B. Hoch;D. W. Richter

  • Brain-derived neurotrophic factor drives the changes in excitatory synaptic transmission in the rat superficial dorsal horn that follow sciatic nerve injury.

    Van B. Lu;James E. Biggs;Martin J. Stebbing;Sridhar Balasubramanyan

  • Preparing for the first breath: prenatal maturation of respiratory neural control.

    John J. Greer;Gregory D. Funk;Gregory D. Funk;Klaus Ballanyi

  • An intracellular analysis of gamma-aminobutyric-acid-associated ion movements in rat sympathetic neurones.

    Klaus Ballanyi;Peter Grafe

  • Generation of eupnea and sighs by a spatiochemically organized inspiratory network.

    Araya Ruangkittisakul;Stephan W. Schwarzacher;Lucia Secchia;Yonglie Ma

  • Amyloid β (Aβ) Peptide Directly Activates Amylin-3 Receptor Subtype by Triggering Multiple Intracellular Signaling Pathways

    Wen Fu;Araya Ruangkittisakul;David MacTavish;Jenny Y. Shi

  • Glia Contribute to the Purinergic Modulation of Inspiratory Rhythm-Generating Networks

    Adrianne G. Huxtable;Jennifer D. Zwicker;Tucaauê S. Alvares;Araya Ruangkittisakul

Frequent Co-Authors

Diethelm W. Richter
Diethelm W. Richter University of Göttingen
Peter Grafe
Peter Grafe Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Peter A. Smith
Peter A. Smith University of Alberta
Gregory D. Funk
Gregory D. Funk University of Alberta
Bradley J. Kerr
Bradley J. Kerr University of Alberta
William F. Colmers
William F. Colmers University of Alberta
Mark C. Bellingham
Mark C. Bellingham University of Queensland
Hiroshi Onimaru
Hiroshi Onimaru Showa University
Arthur Konnerth
Arthur Konnerth Technical University of Munich
Jack H. Jhamandas
Jack H. Jhamandas University of Alberta

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